Syndal Heatherdale Pipe Reserve Trail

Syndal Heatherdale Pipe Reserve Trail
	The trail near Highbury Road
Length	About 10.3 km
Location	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cycling details
Trail difficulty	Difficult
Surface	lined concrete path 1/2 goat track[ citation needed ]
Hills	Hilly in the north end
Connecting transport
Train(s)	Heatherdale, Syndal
Tram(s)	None

Last updated June 30, 2019

The Syndal Heatherdale Pipe Reserve Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows the Syndal to Heatherdale pipe reserve in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Cycling, also called biking or bicycling, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bikers", or less commonly, as "bicyclists". Apart from two-wheeled bicycles, "cycling" also includes the riding of unicycles, tricycles, quadracycles, recumbent and similar human-powered vehicles (HPVs).

A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. In some communities, those travelling using tiny wheels such as roller skates, skateboards, and scooters, as well as wheelchair users are also included as pedestrians. In modern times, the term usually refers to someone walking on a road or pavement, but this was not the case historically.

Syndal is a Locality in the Melbourne suburbs of Glen Waverley and Mount Waverley in Victoria, Australia around the intersection of High Street Road and Blackburn Road. It is in the local government area of the City of Monash. From the intersection down to Syndal railway station on Coleman Parade, is the Syndal Shopping Centre. This strip is a highly populated commercial area encompassing a number of diverse local interest stores including several take-away food shops, a laundromat, a bridal store, a dry cleaner and many others in between.

The trail is navigable from one end to the other but in many sections there is only a few formal sections of path- currently between Highbury Road and Ballantyne Street. Monash Council has released a tender for construction of the section from Highbury Road to High Street Road, while Whitehorse Council is currently planning for construction of the path from Mahoneys Road to Norma Road. Bicycle Victoria sees this as an important route, linking the Syndal railway station with the Tally Ho business park on Burwood highway, as part of an ongoing demand for a fully integrated transport strategy in Victoria^[4] and is campaigning for improvements to the trail.^[5]

Syndal railway station is located on the Glen Waverley line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley, opening on 5 May 1930.

Burwood East is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located 16 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2011 Census, Burwood East had a population of 10,141.

Following the path

The southern end of the path starts on the north side of Syndal Station, in Shirley Ave. The path is clear cut except for three short road sections:

Mahoneys Rd between Panorama Drv and Hawthorn Rd
Springvale Rd between Husband Rd and Canterbury Rd
A section along Lucknow Rd and Mitcham Rd

The path terminates in the north at Brunswick Rd in Mitcham.

Mitcham is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km east from Melbourne's Central Business District. Its local government area is the City of Whitehorse. At the 2016 Census, Mitcham had a population of 16,148.

Connections

Dead end in the north at Brunswick Rd in Mitcham.
Meets the Waverley Rail Trail at Syndal Station. Connects to Scotchmans Creek Trail in the south via a short road section (Blackburn Rd, Falconer St & Flander Ave) that leads to Syndal Station.
Roughly halfway along the trail, it intersects with the Wurundjeri Walk Trail at Mahoneys Rd. North of and beside "Brand Receptions", go along Parkland Place and cross Mahoneys Rd to the trail.

The Waverley Rail Trail is a combination of shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians and on-road bicycle route, which follows the Glen Waverley railway line from Holmesglen railway station to Glen Waverley railway station in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The Scotchmans Creek Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians, which follows Scotchmans Creek through the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

The Wurundjeri Walk Trail is a shared use path for cyclists and pedestrians in the inner eastern suburbs of Blackburn South and Forest Hill in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

North end at 37°49′07″S145°12′18″E / 37.818525°S 145.205081°E / -37.818525; 145.205081 . South end at 37°53′02″S145°08′47″E / 37.883955°S 145.146516°E / -37.883955; 145.146516 .

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[1] VicRoads - Bicycle Facilities Map Archived 2007-02-19 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Melbourne and Geelong's shared paths in Google Maps

[3] Melbourne and Geelong's shared paths in Google Earth

[4] Tally Ho business village

[5] Bicycle Victoria - Burwood to Mitcham Pipe Reserve

Syndal Heatherdale Pipe Reserve Trail

Contents

Following the path

Connections

See also

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